Harm Reduction Collective

#bringbackharmreduction

Tomorrow, on International Overdose Awareness day, we are launching a call to action.

The drug and alcohol sector is in crisis. Drug related deaths are increasing at a phenomenal rate and in Scotland they are the highest in the whole world. Harm Reduction has fallen further and further down the agenda, with an absolute policy void at government level, who have recently focused on pursuing abstinence masquerading as Recovery at all costs.

For many years the smaller, community focused organisations who historically delivered these services, who know their communities inside out and are trusted, have been closed down as larger contracts and processes forced them out. We believe these two issues are interlinked. While this has been happening we have found it harder and harder to find our voice. So we are coming together to do that. Our aim is twofold:

Create a coherent and single voice with the aim of bringing back a strategic focus on and prioritisation of harm reduction in its purest sense

Promote the role of smaller, locally connected, harm reduction focused organisations and their role in redeveloping harm reduction services, to the priority level they were 10-15 years ago.

We are a currently small group of providers who have been talking about this and our desire to #bringbackharmreduction. Our call to action is for passionate harm reductionists from small/medium sized organisation to connect with us.

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Who We Are:

Project 6 is an award winning voluntary sector drug and alcohol charity based in Keighley, West Yorkshire. We are a harm reduction and recovery focused service working to help people reduce the risks associated with substance misuse and we offer support to users of drugs and alcohol and their relatives and carers.

Airedale Voluntary Drug and Alcohol Agency trading as Project 6 is a registered charity number 1173006 and a company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales number 3430925